About the Guest Artists
NUNELUCIO ALVARADO, a true blooded Negrense, was born in
Sagay City, Negros Occidental on 05 May 1950. He earned his Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree at the University of the Philippines and also studied Advertising
at School of Architecture and Fine Arts in La Consolacion College in Bacolod.
He was a recipient of the Kabayao-Ledesma Scholarship Grant for painting in
1968. Known for works of art that depict faces, plight,and struggles of the
Negros-based Sakadas (laborers hired from outside), and marginalized sectors,
he established Pamilya Pintura and Pintor Kulapol in Bacolod and was also a founding
member of Concerned Artists of Negros and the Black Artists of Asia, and an art
Director of Syano Artlink. Alvarado has held exhibitions locally and
internationally (Singapore, 1996 and 2004; Japan, 1997; and the US, 1998). In
1992 he represented the Philippines in the first Asia-Pacific Triennial
of Contemporary Art in Australia. He has received numerous
awards including the Thirteen Artist Award of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines (CCP) in 1992 and the grand prize in Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards
in 1997 and 1999.
SANTIAGO BOSE(rip-2002) completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree at the University of the Philippines. He has held numerous solo
exhibitions in the Philippines (Vargas Museum, 2012; Cultural Center of the Philippines,
2004; and Green Papaya Art Projects,2001) as well as in other countries such as
Hong Kong, Australia, Spain, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Cuba, Chile,
Germany, China, The Netherlands, Monaco, and the US. Bose, who has been awarded
artist residencies by Center A in Vancouver and Pacific Bridge Southeast Asian
Art Gallery, Oakland, was also very active in his community in Baguio. He was
Executive Director of the 5th Baguio International Art Festival in 1999, became
the president of the Baguio Arts Guild, and was awarded most outstanding
citizen of Baguio. However, his sphere of influence went beyond the Philippines
such that the Mayor of San Francisco, California, declared 20 January 1989 as
Santiago Bose Day. He is also the recipient of several prestigious awards
including the Thirteen Artist Awards of the Cultural Center of the Philippines
(1976) and the Twelve Emerging Artist Award of the Art Association of the
Philippines (1975).
JOEY COBCOBO earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts (major in Advertising)
degree, cum laude, at the Technological University of the Philippines. An
active member of the Printmakers Association of the Philippines, Cobcobo’s
works have been shown in various museums in the Philippines including the Ayala
Museum, Yuchengco Museum, and at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He has
also held exhibitions in New York, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Vietn
am, and Japan. A 2012 CCP Thirteen Artist Awardee, he has
received numerous awards including the 2010 Juror’s Choice of the Philippine
Art Awards as well as a series of shortlist nominations for the Ateneo Art
Awards.
DON M. SALUBAYBA (rip 2014) completed his Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree at the University of the Philippines. A CCP Thirteen Artist Awardee
for 2009, Salubayba has exhibited his works at the Anita Gallery, CASA San
Miguel, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila,
Valentine Willie Fine Arts, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, Project Fulfilled
in Taiwan, Taipei Artist Village, DUMBO Art Center, and Goliath Visual Space
both in New York City. He was awarded numerous residencies such those at the
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
in Fukuoka, Japan in 2008, Taipei Artist Village in 2009 and
2011, and Vermont Art Studio in 2010. He was also a part of the Kuandu Biennale
in Taipei, Taiwan in 2012.Salubayba, a
2004 Asian Cultural Council grantee at the Headlands Center
for the Arts and the International Studios and Curatorial Program, has taught
classes at the Philippine High School
for the Arts and at the International School, Manila.
ALVIN YAPAN is a graduate of Legal Management at the Ateneo
de Manila University, took his Master’s Degree in Philippine Literature in
Filipino also at the Ateneo, and earned his
PhD in Philippine Studies at the University of the
Philippines. Yapan has received multiple Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature (1997, 2002, and 2003), a National Book Award for his “Ang Sandali
ng mga Mata” (2006), and NCCA‘s Writers Prize for Fiction in 2005. His
first solo feature-length film for Cinemalaya Philippine Independent
Film Festival, “Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe (The Rapture of Fe)”, won Best Picture (Digital
Feature Category) at the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival (2009) while
his film, “Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa (The Dance of Two Left Feet)”,
won the Bronze Award at the 28th Festival de Cine de Bogota (2011) and Best
Picture at the Gawad Urian (2012). He is currently an assistant professor in
the School of Humanities in Ateneo de Manila University.
About the Curators
RICKY FRANCISCO is a museum worker who has been working with
various museums since 1999. He is currently affiliated with the Lopez Museum
and Library, Fundacion Sanso, Kalaw Ledesma Foundation, and the independent
curatorial platform S[H]IFT. He is a collection manager and a curator and has received
grants in collection management from ICCROM (Rome, Italy), the Heritage
Conservation Centre (Singapore), the National University of Singapore
Conservation Laboratory, and SEAMEO-SPAFA (Thailand). In 2014, he was among the
recipientsof a competitive curatorial development program grant from the Japan
Foundation and a Getty Foundation-funded travel grant to participate in the
annual conference of the ICOM International Committee for Museums and
Collections of Modern Art (ICOM-CIMAM) in Doha, Qatar. He has conducted numerous
workshops on collection management for cultural workers and private collections
around the country and has given lectures on the topic in Singapore, Vietnam,and
Thailand.
Ethel Villafranca is the Head of Education &
Administration of the Lopez Museum and Library. She earned her Master’s Degree in
Museology (specializing in education), on a Fulbright Scholarship, at the University
of Florida and her undergraduate degree in Philippine Arts, major in arts
management, at the University of the Philippines-Manila. Villafranca, who has been
involved in various aspects of museum/cultural work since 1998, previously worked
at Ayala Museum, Robinsons Children’s Library, and has held internship
positions at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Florida Museum
of Natural History, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, and San Diego Museum of Art. She
has also been awarded fellowships/scholarships by the Asian Cultural Council
(an affiliate of the John D. Rockefeller Foundation), Alliance of American
Museums, Florida Association of Museums, MetLife Foundation, and the University
of Florida.She has curated exhibitions at the University of Florida Grinter Gallery
of International Arts, Judge Guillermo Guevara exhibition at UP Main Library,
and Lopez Museum. She will be starting her PhD in Museum Education at the
University of Melbourne in March 2015.
ps: info and photos in this article are provided by lopez museum
ps: info and photos in this article are provided by lopez museum
